"What is Kotaku's game of the year?" you may be asking yourself. Well, I'm certainly not going to spoil the surprise. But in the meantime, we're sharing the GOTY winners from other sites around the web.

Over at MMORPG.com, they've named Trion Worlds' color-splosional Rift as the best massively multiplayer online game of the year, with EVE Online coming in as runner-up.